Toy gun.



No. $89,922. Patented Dec. 3], l90l; F.' A. SIMONDS, C. H, FISHER & H. 6. R088. TOY sun;

(Application filed Apr. 13, 1901.)

(No Model.)

Unite Sterne FRANK A. SIMONDS, CHAUNOEY II. FISHER, AND HUGII O. ROSS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO THE RAPID RIFLE COMPANY, LIM- ITED, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

TOY GUN.

SPECIFICATI'ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,922, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed April 13, 1901. Serial No. 55,780. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, FRANK A. SIMONDS and OHAUNOEY II. FISHER, citizens of the United States, and HUGH 0. Ross, a subject 5 of the King of Great Britain, all residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Guns; and we do hereby declare the following to be a I full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in I the construction of toy-guns, and more especially to such construction designed to adapt them to be made substantially of sheet metal cut and stamped into proper form, whereby they may be quickly and cheaply made and 26 of light and durable construction and also made of suitable material for polishing and plating throughout.

Our invention consists, essentially, of certain details of construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying our invention; Fig. 2, a portion of the same with one lock-plate removed; Fig. 3, an enlarged transverse section on the line 3 3; Fig. 4, the same on the line 4 4; Figs. 5 and 6, transverse sections of the stock on the lines 5 5 and 6 6; Fig. 7, a plan of the springcase, and Fig. 8 a horizontal section on the line 8 8 of Fig. 1.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

c The structure consists, essentially, of a barrel having an outwardly-enlarged breech, a hollow sheet-metal stock composed of two equal parts permanently connected by hollow shouldered rivets, one of which rivets is internally threaded to receive screws by which the lock-plates are secured to the stock, and two lock-plates of stamped sheet metal having proper openings for the pivots and screws and provided with suitable means for engaging and holding the barrel in place,

together with other details hereinafter more fully described.

Referring again to the drawings, A represents the barrel, provided with an outwardlyenlarged breech l3 and a longitudinal slot B at the top, forward of said enlargement.

O O are the lock-plates, which are provided with suitable outwardly-pressed portions 0 to embrace and securely hold the enlarged end B of the barrel. To further secure the barrel, the lock-plates have inwardly-projecting lugs D at their upper edges, adapted to be inserted in the slot B in the barrel. This construction also serves to secure the upper edges of the lock-plates to each other. These lock-plates also extend forward beneath the barrel and are turned inward and downward where they engage the barrel to form grooves, in which grooves are inserted the upper ends K K of the spring-case K, which case is made of a strip of sheet metal suitably folded and stamped, as shown, to form c0ncave portions K at each side of the spring J and parallel ways K at each side of the sear.

L is a screw that serves to detachably conmeet the look-plates to each other beneath the barrel and also to serve as a pivot for the sear H.

I is the trigger, having opposing pivots, for which suitable openings are formed in the lock-plates O.

G is the operating lever, having pivots G, for which pivots the lock-plates are also provided with suitable openings.

E is the stock, consisting of two equal sheetmetal parts having a recess or opening P between them to receive the lever G and otherwise having abutting edges. These parts are oppositely recessed at E and secured to each other by a hollow shouldered rivet or stud F in the axis of these recesses. At the forward end the stock is reduced, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive the lock-plates O and also connected by a hollow shouldered rivet F, which rivet is internally threaded to receive 5 screws 0, by which screws the lock-plates C are secured to the stock.

Inserted in the rear of the barrel is a cups'haped spring-stop M, which is held therein by engaging with the shoulders formed in too the lock-plates O at the rear of the outwardlypressed portions engaging the enlargement B of the barrel.

H is a screw for temporarily holding the stop M in place. 1

A is an opening in the barrel, through which the hook on the end of the sear may be seen and its engagement with the plunger observed.

Having thus'fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a toy gun,a stock composed of stamped sheet-metal sides secured to each other by shouldered rivets, substantially as described.

2. In a toy gun, a stock composed of two sheet-metal sides having opposing recesses, and secured by a hollow shouldered rivet in said recesses, and also having a reduced forward end to receive the lock-plates, and connected by a shouldered and internally-threaded hollow rivet, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a barrel having an enlarged breech, a stock, and lock-plates having outwardly-pressed portions embracing the enlarged breech of the barrel, and means for securing the lock-plates to the stock and'to each other, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a stock, abarrel having-an enlarged breech and a longitudinal slot, lockplates having outwardly-pressed portions to embrace the enlarged breech and lugs to engage the slot, and means for securing the lock-plates to 'the stock and to each other, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a barrel having an enlarged breech and a slot, a stock having a reduced forward end, lock-plates having outwardly-pressed portions to engage the breech and lugs to engage the slot, said plates also extending beneath the barrel, a scar within the lock-plates, a screw connecting the lockplates and serving as a pivot for the sear,

said lock-plates also surrounding the reduced forward end of the stock and attached thereto, substantially as described.

6. In a toy gun, in combination with the fore-stock the scar and a spiral spring engaging the sear, a separate spring-case inserted in the fore-stockand having concave sides engaging opposite sides of the spring, and parallel ways engaging each side of the sear, sub stantially as described.

7. The combination of a barrel, lock-plates extending beneath the barrel and having grooves, a scar pivoted between the lockplates, a spiral spring engaging the sear, and

a spring-case having concave sides embracing the spring, and parallel sides engaging the scar, and upwardly-extended sides engaging the grooves in the plates, substantially as described.

8. In combination with a barrel having an enlarged breech and a slot, an operating-1ever having pivots, a trigger having pivots, and a sear; lock-plates having outwardlypressed portions to engage the breech, lugs to engage the slot, openings for the pivots of the lever and trigger, and a screw connecting the lock-plates and forming a pivot for the sear, substantially as described.

9. The combination of a barrel having an enlarged breech, a spring-stop in the breech of the barrel and lock-plates having outwardly-pressed portions engaging the enlarged breech and forming shoulders at the rear engaging the spring-stop, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK A. SIMONDS. CHAUNCEY H. FISHER. I-IUGH C. ROSS.

\Vitnesses:

PALMER A. JONES, LUTHER V. MOULTON. 

